Sacred principles, services, and soliloquies or, a manual of devotions made up of three parts: I. The grounds of Christian religion, and the doctrine of the Church of England, as differing from the now-Roman. II. Daily, and weekly formes of prayers fortified with Holy Scriptures, meditations and rules to keep the soule from the common roads of sin, and carry it on in a mortified course. III. Seven charges to conscience, delivering (if not the whole body) the main limbs of divinity, which is the art not of disputing, but living well.

Tuesday-Service. Against Gluttonie.

Morning Prayer. Psal. 17. 73. Lessons, Deut. 8. or 32. Amos 6. Luke 16. or 21.

Evening Prayer. Psal. 78. or 160. Lessons, Dan. 5. or Isaiah 22. Rom. 13. or 1 Cor. 10. Phil. 3. Jude, or Epist.

¶ Collect or Prayer, against Gluttonie.

DEare Saviour! that would'st have my Body a Temple for thy holy Spirit; thou wilt not have it a Sepulcher for Beasts. Thou that hast done my lips * 1.1 the blisse & honour, to be made Dores for thy Holy Bodie to enter at, wilt not have them gates for the uncleane Spirit to passe, in, and out: if I so pol∣lute my body, wilt thou not desert me, and destroy me, if I dare so prophane, Thine? Lord! that I may not lose my Soul, let me not so abuse either Bodie; and abhorre gluttony which makes me doe that abuse to both!

O Christ! it was thy meat and drink * 1.2

to doe thy Fathers will (and but for strength to that thou didst not eate, and drink!) O! let me not with Adam eat my selfe at oncc out of Obedience and Paradise! Thou didst fast, and feast (to teach me there is a Time for both) but a Gluttons appetite was never in thy mouth. Nor let it ever be in mine, O God! if I fast, let me not eate up my Bodie, by cruell abstinence! if I feast, let me not devoure my Soule, by intemperance! whether I abstaine, or eate, or drinke, or whatsoever I * 1.3 doe, let all be to thy glory! that at death, when Epicures make their two Feasts for Wormes, and Fiends, with their Bodies, and Soules; thou mayest feast and fill both mine, with thy One: Joyes, which will fill, and not loathe; Satisfie, and not Surfeit, for ever! To that glut of joyes deare Jesus bring me! From other gluttonie, keep me! By the way of thy Blood, and worke of thy holy Spirit, O Lord! Amen, Amen.

Daily Prayers.

Remedies against Gluttonie.

A Sinne; ¹ Man is not made for; but is ² undone by: yet may be ³ helpt against.

• 1. Mans throat is narrow (not made to swallow) and short, not for de∣light to gormandize. If he doe,
• 2. Love he which World he will, it will be his ruine. ¹ For a better.
  • 1. It makes Man, Swine. His Belly, * 1.4 God: and Paunch his Paradise. The Kitchin, his Church. First and second courses, his Servi∣ces. His howers of Devotion, Meal-times. His Creed is in his Cook. His Decalogue in his Dishes. The company of Epicures his Communion of Saints, and death everlasting his end. For by this meanes he eates and drinks away his time in vanity; drownes his soul in sensuality, & destroyes his con∣science * 1.5 with guilt. It being (as one dead sin it self) always mo∣ther of another, (luxury which never wants a womb, where gluttony hath a belly.) And of∣ten sister to many; as ill as * 1.6

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  • ... Sodomes, all (even the worst) though Idolatry, and Sodomie it selfe. And
  • 2. It makes him as much wretch, as Beast. For even here it bars him of the greatest blessing (Health.) His chief boon (long Life;) and onely blisse (Plea∣sure.) For, fulnesse is the mo∣ther of Sicknesse; and that, the nurse of Death. Temperance hath the most delicious taste, and Hunger cookes all meates * 1.7 to Delicates; wh••reas his Ap∣petite needs more whets then his Knife; with which he doth not so much cut his meat, as his throat. Even then digging his * 1.8 grave with his teeth, when he most pampers his Palate. Before the Flood, Mans life was longest, when food simplest. Their years (ten to one) lon∣ger, because their diets (twenty to one) lesse.
• 3. For such a Malady, help were hap∣py. And it hath a double cure.
  • 1. Perforce. So sicknesse is the re∣medy, which disgusts the Pa∣late, and make fasts necessa∣ry,

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  • because meats unpleasant. So for the time, the Glutton is ab∣stemious; but, by disease, not virtue; not from good habit, but ill habitude. Yet even thus (if wise) it may get the ill one off, and be cured.
  • 2. By choice. For, as his pleasures are none in sicknesse, they are short in health (whilst the meats passe by the throat, from the mouth to the stomack, space and time not long.) And, in death gone, past all recovery. Why then so much ill, for so little good? This vanishing, and pe∣rishing in sicknesse, and death; That hastning, and posting my Body unto sicknesse? I wil none, if I weigh it well. And lesse, if I doe consider, and endeavour aright.
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      • 1. There is a life after death. Be not an Epicure in thy Creed, and thou wilt not be a Glut∣ton * 1.9 in thy life: Ede, bibe, lude, believes nothing beyond death.
      • 2. Thou wilt be arraigned then by thy Creatour, for abusing his Workmanship, (thy self.)

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      • Accused by the Creatures, for devouring his workes (them.) Making thy soul and body (in∣stead of the Ark of his Testi∣monies and Tabernacle of his service) the one a streiner for lusts, the other for meats: * 1.10 The creature ravished by force to serve thee against his ends, as if made for nothing but thy lust, and the dunghill. Thou wilt therefore be con∣demned for thy injury, to him, thy self, and them. To a glut∣tony of torments, starved bo∣dy and soul, without crumb, or * 1.11 drop of comfort for thy short pleasures, to paines long, and lasting for ever. Consider this!
    • 2. There is, a Cloath, a Meat, a Drink, an Art, an Office, that will help, if thou have it. Do thou then en∣deavour it!
      • 1. The Coat, is Christ. Of particu∣lar * 1.12 virtue to expell Gluttony.
      • 2. The Meat, is his Word and Sa∣crament. To which, to have an holy Appetite, is to lose the * 1.13 sensuall; and to digest it, to loath it.

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      • 3. The Drink, is his Spirit, with * 1.14 which the soul drunk, keepes the body sober. The greater exces∣ses of good, the lesse of it sur∣fets.
      • 4. The Art, is his Pionry, to un∣dermine * 1.15 gluttony by works of Charity. Giving the mainte∣nance of thy lust to the poor. So thou shalt at once starve thy * 1.16 sinne, and feast thy Consci∣ence. And God, and Christ him∣self will come to the feast. * 1.17
      • 5. The Office, is to keep his Table. Which Frugality covers, and Temperance takes away. His Example, & Command, wil make thee able, and Prayer will get the blessing of both. And soo∣ner, if for his sake, thou eat, and delight in sober company, and leave Gluttons, for Saints.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Mat. 26. ••6.
• * 1.2

  Joh. 4. 34.
• * 1.3

  1 Cor. 10. 3
• * 1.4

  v. Apud. Tertul. Venter Deus, &c.
• * 1.5

  Tert. Ap∣pendices, sc. gulae lascivia atque lux∣uria.
• * 1.6

  1 Cor. 10. 7
• * 1.7

  Prov. 27. 7
• * 1.8

  Pluris ne∣cat crapula quam gla∣dius.
• * 1.9

  1 Cor. 15. 32, 33.
• * 1.10

  Rom. 8. 20
• * 1.11

  Luk. 16. 23
• * 1.12

  Rom. 13. 13, 14.
• * 1.13

  Job. 6. 27.
• * 1.14

  Eph. 5. 18.
• * 1.15

  Dan. 4. 27.
• * 1.16

  Job. 29. 15 and 31. 16.
• * 1.17

  Mat. 15. 35 Luk. 14. 13.